Isabella FITZROBERT, Of Gloucester

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[John Howard, Duke.ged]

De Clare, Isabelle, Of Gloucester, Countess of Gloucester -

John divorce her on the ground of consanguinity; her grandfather Robert being an illegitimate son of Henry I. Burke also names her as Avisa. Also known as Hawise, Joan, Eleanor.

Isabella married John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. John (son of King Henry II PLANTAGENET and Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert PLANTAGENET was born in 1209; died in 1272.

Isabella married on 20 Jan 1213-1214. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mafonache
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He was the Earl of Gloucester 1147-1183. In 1128 he was witness to an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp and is mentioned the following year as concurring in the foundation charter of Neath. In October 1141 he was surety for his father Stephen, who Earl Robert had captured at Lincoln. In 1147 he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary and in 1153 was one of the witnesses to the agreement between Stephen and Henry (later Henry II). He lived principally at Cardiff and in 1158 he and his wife and son were captured in Cardiff Castle by Ivor the Little and carried and held as prisoners until the Earl agreed to redress Ivor's grievances. In 1173 he sided with the King against his (the King's) sons and went to help the King's forces at the battle of Fornham where he was taken prisoner. In 1176 he named John, the King's son, heir to his earldom in accordance with the promise that John wold marry one of his daughters. He witnessed the arbitration decision between the Kings of Castile and Navarre and in 1178 he witnessed Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. In April 1183 William was imprisoned by the King along with other magnates of whom he had loyalty doubts. (From Complete Peerage, V:687-688)Some call him Earl of Bristol. He has also been named as Mafonache. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p687-9.

William married Mabel (Hawise) DE BEAUMONT about 1150. Mabel was born in 1150; died on 24 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Complete Peerage vol.V,p688 is clear her mother was Amice of Montfort.